- From: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:30:45 -0800
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, Ed Trager <ed.trager@gmail.com>
+1 to a browser detection flag (or, best case, a less clunky OM for detecting this kinda thing). Regards On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > > Dave Crossland wrote: >> >> 2009/1/7 Ed Trager <ed.trager@gmail.com>: >>> >>> If someone on this list has any ideas on how to check for @font-face >>> support using Javascript, please let all of us know about it. > > You could try using the CSSOM to see how the browser parsed the @font-face > rule. It's clunky, and you'd need to check for various conditions (e.g. > UNKNOWN_RULE in some UAs vs the rule being absent from the CSSOM altogether > in others), and some UAs may not support the relevant parts of the CSSOM. > But it would have the advantage of working today with no further browser > changes. > > It might not be a bad idea to introduce a feature string or something for > this, though.... > > -Boris > >
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